This morning a found a lovely female GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER on Salt Point in Lansing, at the edge of the trees on the right as you continue past the gate on the main road that parallels the creek. I followed her as she foraged along the edge, eventually making her way more to the center of the point. Other birds nearby included Wilson's, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, and Blue-winged warblers.
When I returned to my car at Myers Point I found two juvenile SANDERLINGS foraging along the north shore of the point. They had not been present a couple of hours earlier when I first checked the spit. The only birds of note I had on the lake this morning were 10 COMMON TERNS flying up the lake calling. Other noteworthy landbirds were a MARSH WREN in the cattail patch in Salmon Creek, migrant BAY-BREASTE and BLACKPOLL near the entrance to Myers, NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH along the edge of the marsh at the railroad tracks, and my long-awaited first Myers Point RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH foraging near but not in the spruces at the entrance fee booth. My list from Salt Point with a couple of photos of the Golden-winged here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31492223 -- Jay McGowan Macaulay Library Cornell Lab of Ornithology [email protected] -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
